What's a good plugin to widen my stereo image?

Anyone know of any good ones.

waves S1

some people just use a delay on the stereo track

another option:

-copy/paste track 3 times, one in centre other two pan hard L/R

-30 band EQ on L/R channels

-drop and raise freq. mirroring the other channel (one up all the way, one down all the way)

-Mix

EDIT: i think its called the HASS effect... could be wrong though

yeah... forknspoon got it right... you can do really crazy shit by having a centre track and then a left and right track..


I use the ozone imager a bit.. But only on the master... I usually only use imaging plug ins then... To widen or control the widening at certain frequencies... IT's kind of a multiband imager...
(especially mastering for vynal.. You dont want any low end being wide as it can make the needle jump)
Most imaging i do is like how forknspoon explained with the duplicate track....

Soundtoys Microshift

What DAW are you using? Ableton has the "Utility" device. You also look for MS encoding plugins.

the Haas method works a little different as far as i´m concerned. you would duplicate a track, and shift one about 25 milliseconds later. this will give you a stereo image but is not mono compatible. here´s another thing you can do: let´s assume you have a mono track (also works with a stereo file of course). send the signal to 2 different buses, one panned hard left, the other one hard right. apply an eq on both these channels. on the left you cut out everything below around 1k (1000hz), on the right everything above around 1k. maybe you wanna experiment with the crossover point of the frequency. send that signal back to the original source, pre fader position. this will widen your stereo field and is 100% mono compatible.

yeah the s1 is pretty much my go to for widening, dont overdo it though, it can really make a track sound hollow and artificial if you make it too wide.

its also cool with a sample that is a bit heavy left or right, you can tilt it a bit to make it more center.